agriculture fair News

Protea are excited to be exhibiting at the Pig and Poultry Fair www.pigandpoultry.org.uk, which will attract more than 10,000 visitors this year, and will be held at the NAEC, Stoneleigh, Warwickshire from 10th – 11th May 2016. Protea will be showcasing our analysers and sensors specifically aimed at the agricultural and livestock industry. The ...

Mar. 31, 2016

By Protea Limited

With ever increasing interest internationally in organic agriculture, BioNovelus’ (PINKSHEETS: ONOV) booth at Agritrade Expo and Conference which took place March 23 and 24 in Guatemala commanded a lot of attention during the two-day fair. BioNovelus CEO and President, Jean Ekobo, who led the company’s Central American delegation, was not surprised that interest in the company’s ...

Apr. 12, 2017

By BioNovelus Inc.

Location of MSHS Retail Booth and Educational Display The Minnesota State Fair moved our retail/membership booth and our educational display. You'll find us in The Dirt wing, next to the north hall, in the Ag/Hort Building. The Dirt wing is also the location of the educational stage. Don't leave the building without stopping in to say hi! The Fair is always a great time ...

Jul. 27, 2016

By Minnesota State Horticultural Society (MSHS)

The State Fair Wine Garden is a great way to explore the wide variety of wines made right here in the Lone Star State. Featuring more than 40 Texas wineries over the course of the Fair, there is always a new vintage to try at the State Fair Wine Garden, presented by the Texas Department of Agriculture. Each day, fair attendees over the age of 21 can sample three to four wines from featured Texas ...

Sep. 23, 2016

By Texas Wine and Grape Growers Association, Inc.

Epssilon Networks , one of our worldwide strategic partners, have shown ADVANTICSYS greenhouses monitoring and control technologies at the Flores y Viveros International Exhibition Fair at Quillota, Chile on the 25th and 26th November 2014. ...

Nov. 27, 2014

By Advantic Sistemas y Servicios S.L

Nestle, the world’s largest food company, is the first to sign on to a voluntary European Union effort to create fairness in the trading relations of food suppliers and retailers. The EU Framework for the Implementation and Enforcement of the Principles of Good Practice in the Food Supply Chain is a set of good practice ...

Nov. 22, 2013

By GLOBE Foundation

The Global Forum for Innovations in Agriculture (GFIA) is presenting itself to the outside world as ‘the world's award-winning sustainable agriculture event’. With 40 ministerial delegations and numerous top figures from the agrifood world, this trade fair and conference is guaranteed to feature many innovations in a wide range of fields. As an innovation partner, Wageningen UR is ...

Feb. 18, 2015

By Wageningen University and Research Centre

The Fair Trade Futures Conference will bring together entrepreneurs, students, advocates, faith community members, concerned citizens, and interested individuals for the largest Fair Trade event in North American history. Among the keynote speakers include Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange, and representatives from four producer ...

Aug. 23, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

This year, at the EuroTier trade fair in Hanover, the RKW Group will present its entire range of agricultural films and nets. Film innovations for the agricultural industry, such as Polydress O2 Barrier 2IN1 (previously awarded by a German Agricultural Association Expert Commission at EuroTier 2012), are at the heart of the presentation at Booth C04, Hall 23. RKW Agri GmbH & Co. KG is a ...

Nov. 5, 2014

By RKW Agri GmbH & Co. KG

From September 10-12, 2010, the Fair Trade Futures Conference brought together 762 entrepreneurs, students, advocates, artisans, farmers, faith community members, and concerned citizens from five continents for the largest Fair Trade event in North American history. Kevin Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange, called for participants to ...

Sep. 28, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

All poultry shows at the Ohio State Fair and county fairs across the state have been canceled this year because of the threat of a deadly bird flu virus, the state's agriculture department announced Tuesday. The virus that has led to the deaths of more than 44 million chickens and turkeys in the Midwest hasn't been found so far in Ohio, but state officials said banning all poultry shows is a ...

Jun. 2, 2015

By Associated Press

Winners of this week's Brazilian Fair Trade Certified coffee cupping competition have been announced. Carmo Barbosa Fernandes of the producer organization, Coopervitae, and Luciano Dazilio Delpupo of the producer organization, Pronova, won first place in the natural and semi-washed coffee categories respectively. The competition, which is a specialized tasting to assess coffee quality, capped off ...

Nov. 10, 2010

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Today Agritechnica, the world's largest trade fair for agricultural machinery and equipment, already shows great visitor turnout halfway through the show. Agritechnica organizer DLG (German Agricultural Society) today  announced that Agritechnica 2015 so far has been visited by around 200,000 visitors since it opened last Sunday on 8th November. This figure is of similar levels ...

Nov. 11, 2015

By German Agricultural Society (DLG) / DLG-International GmbH

Farming in Europe – an overview How rural is the EU? Over 77% of the EU's territory is classified as rural (47% is farm land and 30% forest) and is home to around half its population (farming communities and other residents). How many farmers are there in the EU? 12 million (full-time). ...

Jun. 26, 2013

By European Commission

The South is the heart of U.S. broiler chicken production and escaped the deadly bird flu virus that devastated flocks in the Midwest this spring. Autumn, however, brings the possibility that migrating wild birds will carry the virus to the lower half of the U.S. To try to keep bird flu at arm's length, a number of states are barring or limiting poultry shows and public sales, including those at ...

Sep. 19, 2015

By Associated Press

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Green Mountain Coffee, and Fair Trade USA today announce a new partnership to promote biodiversity, conservation, and environmental education among Brazil's coffee growing communities, as biodiverse ecosystems form an important foundation for economic and social development. Fair Trade certification offers coffee farmers fair prices, community ...

Feb. 15, 2011

By CSRwire - Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire

Officials of the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources (DAR) today joined local famers, landowners and municipal officials to celebrate the town of Hadley’s achievement in protecting more farmland than any other community in the state. It’s an honor to be here, celebrating the immense success and commitment of the town of Hadley toward protecting agricultural land in our ...

Jul. 8, 2009

By Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

The European Commission has approved 41 new programmes to promote agricultural products in the EU and on third country markets, worth 130 million EURO over 3 years, half of which (65m EURO) comes from the EU budget. This includes an extra 30m€ of EU funds made available by the Commission following the Russian ban on imports of EU food products last August. Commenting on these new programmes, ...

Apr. 21, 2015

By European Commission, Agriculture and Rural Development DG

The European Commission has approved measures to provide information on, and to promote agricultural products in third countries. Member States submitted 20 programmes to the Commission to be examined. The 10 programmes that have been accepted are from France, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Romania. The products covered are PGI and PDO, wine, fruit and vegetables, meat, spirits, ...

Dec. 1, 2009

By European Commission, Environment DG

The European Commission has approved 16 programmes in 12 Member States (Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Latvia, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom) to provide information on and to promote agricultural products in the European Union. The total budget of the programmes running between one and three years is € 62.1 million, of which the EU will ...

Jul. 24, 2009

By European Commission, Agriculture and Rural Development DG